US History Christmas Final 2023 (Ch. 1-17)

When was the Battle of Lexington and Concord?

When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

What president did very little when South Carolina seceded?

Open-ended search warrants issued by the British government against the colonists were called Writs of Assistance?

How much did the US pay for the Gadsden Purchase?

What is another name for the anti-slavery movement?

What company was the major business in the American Northwest?

What treaty ended the War of 1812?

What major right were E.C. Stanton, L. Mott, and S.B. Anthony encouraging states to give women?

What president was responsible for the Indian Relocation Act?

In what treaty did Spain cede Florida to the US?

Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?

What document stated that the colonies were free from Great Britain?

What war happened between 1861-1865?

What war happened between 1812-1814?

What law guaranteed citizenship to freed slaves born in the United States?

Who invented the thresher and the reaper?

What outlined the US's first form of government following the War for Independence?

Which amendment abolished slavery?

What term referred to the slaves freed during and following the Civil War?

When was Texas annexed to the United States?

What law required all purchases of public lands be paid in gold or silver?

What battle was the turning point in the Civil War?

What treaty ended the Mexican War?

What President's election ended Reconstruction?

When was Mexican Cession?

When was the Tariff of Abominations passed?

What part of the country led the way in giving more people the right to vote?

Which amendment guaranteed freedmens' rights to vote?

What treaty demilitarized the US-Canadian border along the Great Lakes region?

When was Jamestown founded?

Who was the president that dealt with the Civil War and was the first to be assassinated while in office?

When did General Lee surrender at Appomattox Court House?

Who was the commanding Union general during much of the Civil War?

When was the Bill of Rights adopted?

Who was the commanding general for the Confederacy during the Civil War?

What is the only state in the continental US that was an independent country before it joined the Union?

What document stated that slaves in the states currently in rebellion to the Union were free?

When was the Louisiana Purchase?

What treaty stated the terms of relations between the US and Great Britain before the War of 1812?

When was the Treaty of Ghent signed?

When was the Battle of Gettysburg?

What idea suggested that the colonies unify against Great Britain?

What treaty settled the US-Canadian border in Maine?

Who invented the cotton gin?

Germans and what other people group were the largest immigrant groups to the US in the 1800s prior to the Civil War?

What war happened between 1846-1848?

What war happened between 1835-1836?

What document allowed former Confederates to have their voting rights reinstated?

What state was the first to secede?

When was the 14th Amendment adopted?

When was the Monroe Doctrine adopted?

Who was the Confederate general that died from a freak accident and left General Lee to command CSA troops alone?

Who is remembered as "The Father of American Missions"?

What war happened between 1775-1781?

What court case established judicial review?

What treaty ended the French and Indian War?

Pres. Lincoln's plan for readmitting states to the US required what % of eligible voters to pledge allegiance to the US?

Who assassinated President Lincoln?

Which amendment made freedmen citizens; limited some former Confederate's rights; and voided Confederate debt?

When was the Treaty of Paris signed (French and Indian War)?

Which side was more successful in the early years of the Civil War?

What president won the "Favorite Sons" election?

What term does NOT mean the right to vote?

When was Fort Sumter attacked?

What kind of laws put limits on the liberties of the freed slaves?

When was the Treaty of Paris (War for Independence) signed?

Who was known as the "Pathfinder of the Seas" and helped to plan the first transatlantic cable?

Who took office after Lincoln's death; and was the first President to be impeached?

Who advocated for the more humane treatment of the mentally ill in the mid-1800s?

What outlines the plan of government the US has today?

What treaty ended the War for Independence?

What group often terrorized the freed slaves and those who tried to help them recover in the South?

What president was the first to die in office and served the shortest term?

What was the belief that the US should span from the Atlantic to the Pacific?

What court case said slaves were property, not citizens, and that the 36 30 line to bar slavery was unconstitutional?

Who founded Tuskegee Institute as a way to help educate freed slaves?

What president had to deal with a national depression in the late 1830s?

Which side won the Civil War?

What president was a Civil War hero and dealt heavily with Reconstruction?

When was Plymouth founded?

What document was an ultimatum that demanded Spain allow the US to buy Cuba?

Who did General Grant choose as his sidekick?

Who led a slave revolt in Virginia that killed many people?

Who invented the first practical steamboat?

Samuel Slater is remembered as the "Father of the __________ System."

What type of Reconstruction was gentler on the South?

When was the Erie Canal opened?

Who led a raid against Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and planned to free the slaves using force and insurrection?

What compromise kept the balance of slave and free states?

Who was the Union general that ended the Civil War?

Whose presidency inaugurated the "Era of Good Feelings"?

What war happened between 1754-1763?

When did Reconstruction come to an end?

Where were the first attacks of the Civil War?

When was Massachusetts Bay founded?

What state threatened to secede because of high tariffs?

Who led the Underground Railroad?

Who was the radical abolitionist newspaperman that supported using violence to end slavery?

Which amendment fixed issues with presidential elections?